CBS News staffers to be laid off as part of massive round of cuts from Paramount

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Source: The Guardian

Wed 29 Oct 2025 11.16 EDT
Last modified on Wed 29 Oct 2025 11.18 EDT


For months, CBS News staffers have been on edge waiting for a long-expected round of layoffs as part of the $2bn in cost-cutting that had been promised after parent company Paramount’s successful merger with Skydance Media. Those cuts began on Wednesday morning and are expected to affect a significant number of news division employees, though likely less than 100 people. The company declined to provide a specific amount.

One concerned CBS News staffer who was not authorized to comment described the process as “nerve-racking”. “Seems no one is safe,” the person added. Overall, Paramount will lay off about 1,000 staffers on Wednesday, part of a longer-term plan that would double that number of cuts.

David Ellison, the chief executive of Paramount Skydance, announced the cuts in a memo to all staff on Wednesday morning. “In some areas, we are addressing redundancies that have emerged across the organization,” he wrote. “In others, we are phasing out roles that are no longer aligned with our evolving priorities and the new structure designed to strengthen our focus on growth. Ultimately, these steps are necessary to position Paramount for long-term success.”

The cuts are expected to be one of the larger rounds of layoffs in recent memory at CBS News. The most recent round of significant layoffs came in May 2020, during the early months of the pandemic, when approximately 50 staffers were affected during the leadership of then-CBS News president Susan Zirinsky. Puck’s Dylan Byers first reported that “nearly 100” CBS News staffers would be cut Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/29/cbs-news-layoffs-paramount

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[Redleg]

1. Bari Weiss will replace them with those of her own ilk

Jeezus this is going to take a while to straighten out.

[hlthe2b]

2. Bari Weiss her ilk will be remembered forever as the cretins who destroyed the network of Murrow, Cronkite and

all who venerated Sixty Minutes.

May all the disdain that goes with that distinction stick to this foul woman forever.

[underpants]

3. Eventually they'll just show clips of the WH presser ala the Notre Dame highlight show

Leavitt: the President said so

Leavitt: The President is always right

Due to time constraints, We move to action later in the first half

Leavitt: THIS President loves America

Leavitt: The President is all knowing

[FakeNoose]

4. They have no need for professionally qualified journalists anymore ... just random toadies will do

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Walter Cronkite is spinning in his grave.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Bari Weiss is the perfect person to fire people

before the holidays. It is a skill set that matches her personality.

[twodogsbarking]

7. News? How 'bout the slanted news?

Since I was about sixteen I have doubted "the news". Guess I was crazy. More than 50 years but still doubting. I used to get bashed for writing this on DU. Now only occasionally.

[kimbutgar]

8. Outside of three shows I watch on CBS

I will be boycotting it completely from now on.

Except for Ghosts, Matlock and Elsbeth that I can’t quit.

[phxjurist]

9. AND - Suddenly CBS leans far right.

DU will be the only place to get accurate news.